When asked ‘what do you want to make Calgarians aware of?’ for International Overdose Awareness Day 2017, our young people shared this video and this poem and we began to understand: many suffering from opioid addiction are also suffering…

When asked ‘what do you want to make Calgarians aware of?’ for International Overdose Awareness Day 2017, our young people shared this video and this poem and we began to understand: many suffering from opioid addiction are also suffering…
In the past few years, use of opioids has risen and so has the number of deaths. Myself, last year alone, I went to 13 funerals for drug overdose. I was only 18 years old. I have watched so…